Asian Hustle Network

Welcome to Episode 25 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Siqi Mou and Kailu Guan on this week's episode.

We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us.

Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday, so stay tuned!

Siqi Mou is the CEO and Co-Founder of HelloAva. She is a former Bloomberg anchor and also held several positions at Morgan Stanley, PIMCO, The Federal Reserve Bank of New York before starting HelloAva. Siqi was awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 (Consumer Tech) in 2019 and Inc Magazine’s 30 Rising Stars Under 30 in 2018, and has been featured in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, USNews, Marie Claire, Allure, The Cut, WWD, Fast Company, etc. Siqi held an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, MPA from Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and B.A. in Economics from Stanford University where she was elected Phi Beta Kappa.

Kailu Guan is the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of HelloAva. Kailu is an award-winning multidisciplinary designer.  Her areas of concentration include human-centered design, fashion design, augmented reality (AR), and wearable technology. She has held several positions at IDEO, Intel and Hermes. Kailu has exhibited her work at SXSW, TechCrunch, Le Révélateur D’innovation Paris and MIT Media Lab. Vogue Italia, WWD, Dezeen, Fashionista, Viewpoint, and Computer Arts are among the publications that have covered her work. She graduated from Parsons and Central Saint Martins College of Arts.

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Welcome to Episode 24 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have George Chao on this week's episode.

We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us.

Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday, so stay tuned!

George Chao is the Founder and CEO of Uniworld Omniport and is an expert in consumer product development and direct to consumer DTC e-commerce. George founded his first e-commerce brand BBO Poker Tables in 2006 and is the leader in the poker and home gaming niche and later started Omniport Consulting in 2014 to help brands and companies create scalable products and sell more effectively to customers through e-commerce. In his career, George has developed products with and for many prominent brands spanning a wide range of product disciplines.

George is the product of UC, Irvine (Economics BA) and the Executive Leadership Program at Stanford School of Business and enjoys boxing and mountain biking in his free time. Enjoy an in depth discussion about how to make and sell physical products, and the challenges of building healthy and scalable company culture.

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Welcome to a special episode of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Washington Ho on this week's episode.

We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us.

Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday, so stay tuned!

Washington Ho is an American-Vietnamese best known for appearing on HBO Max reality tv House of Ho.

House of Ho, the multi- generational family docusoap, chronicles the daily lives of patriarch Binh Ho, matriarch Hue Ho, their daughter Judy Ho, their son Washington Ho and his wife Lesley Ho, Aunt Tina, and Cousin Sammy.  Power couple Binh and his wife Hue immigrated from Vietnam to the United States with little money, relying on hard work to establish the ultimate American dream. They have built a multi-million dollar bank, a real estate development company and a new generation of American Hos. The series pulls back the curtain of their lavish Houston lifestyle and showcases the tight family connections that unite them as well as the multi-generational outrageous drama that ensues.

Katy Wallin, Stephanie Bloch Chambers, and Nick Lee executive produce the non-fiction series with co-executive producers Amanda Ly and Rosalina Lydster.  House of Ho is produced by Wallin Chambers Entertainment in association with Lionsgate Television.

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Welcome to Episode 23 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Alan Chikin Chow on this week's episode.

We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us.

Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday, so stay tuned!

Alan Chikin Chow is a creator and actor who has amassed over 3 million followers online. Best known for his comedy skits that center on universally relatable moments and global pop culture, Alan's mission is to unite audiences of all backgrounds through laughter. Alan is a 2020 TikTok Ambassador and has worked with brands such as Reese's Puffs, DoorDash, Adobe, and Universal Music/Alicia Keys. As an actor, Alan has appeared in projects such as ABC's Grey's Anatomy, Hulu's Into the Dark, and the CBS multicam pilot The Emperor of Malibu starring Ken Jeong. And yes, Alan's middle name is actually Chikin.

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Welcome to Episode 22 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have  Mikkoh Chen and Megan Ruan on this week's episode.

We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us.

Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday, so stay tuned!

Mikkoh Chen is a Taiwanese-American entrepreneur and diversity champion. The Los Angeles native turned New Yorker is driven by building scalable platforms that aim to shift societal norms and create greater equity across all mediums.

Given his firm belief that growing diverse talent and matching it with premier opportunities engenders stronger leadership, Mikkoh has always had a passion for the intersection of recruiting and technology. Outside of Gold House, Mikkoh leads marketplace operations at Trusted Health, a digital employment platform that optimizes the healthcare workforce, and advises Mathison.io, the first diversity talent marketplace. In addition, he is a passionate member of the LGBTQ+ organizations StartOut and Out in Tech.

Outside of his professional career, he co-leads Gold House’s success arm, including the top accelerator for Asian-led businesses, Gold Rush. Mikkoh has made it a mission to unite all types of entrepreneurs and inspire the next generation of community and business leaders.

Megan Ruan is a Chinese-American entrepreneur, investor, and advocate based in New York City. Born and raised in the Midwest, she is passionate about building communities in which women and minorities have equal access to mentorship, funding, and media representation.

Megan co-heads Gold House’s initiatives for founder and investor success. Over the past 18 months, her team has built Gold Rush (the nation’s leading Asian accelerator) from the ground up, creating a program that provides 1:1 advisorship, networking, and educational seminars to hundreds of founders. To date, Gold Rush companies have raised over $250 million in funding. In addition, Megan leads Gold House’s efforts to build a network of influential Asian angel investors that invest in high potential early-stage companies.

Outside of Gold House, Megan is an investor at the Johnson & Johnson family office. Megan began her career as an analyst at Morgan Stanley and earned dual degrees with distinction from Yale University in Economics and Psychology.

Learn more about Gold House:

https://goldhouse.org/

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Welcome to Episode 21 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Jerry Ting on this week's episode.

We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us.

Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday, so stay tuned!

Before turning 30, Jerry Ting started a company that upended one of the largest sectors of the legal industry. The company, Evisort, uses AI to read contracts automatically, saving household-name brands like Jelly Belly, Fujitsu and Cox Automotive millions of dollars per year on legal fees, earning Jerry the distinction as one of the founders of modern contract management.

Evisort’s AI is revolutionizing the contract management industry, and the technology is impressive in its own right. The software can read a 30-page contract in 15 seconds, extracting relevant legal and business terms, recognize key expiration dates and organize the information in a central repository. It can read 230+ contracts and 50+ provisions and metadata “out-of-the box.” Evisort is one of very few enterprise AI companies with its own R&D lab, building proprietary models to help legal, sales and procurement professionals more efficiently manage their contract workflows.

Today Jerry leads a full team of 70+ employees in Silicon Valley, Boston, Toronto, and the Philippines, helping clients manage and analyze over a billion dollars in contract value around the world. He’s been recognized in Forbes 30 under 30 and Silicon Valley Business Journals’ 40 under 40.

Please check out our Patreon at @asianhustlenetwork. We want AHN to continue to be meaningful and give back to the Asian community. If you enjoy our podcast and would like to contribute to our future, we hope you’ll consider becoming a patron.

Welcome to Episode 20 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Amanda Ang on this week's episode.

We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us.

Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday, so stay tuned!

Amanda Ang is the founder of August Bespoke, a custom jewelry house that helps couples skip the cookie-cutter experience of traditional stores and create one-of-a-kind engagement rings to celebrate their love story.

She was introduced to gemology at a young age by her mother, a passionate gemstone collector, and was inspired to start August Bespoke to help her friends who didn't know who to trust with such a symbolic and important long-term investment.

Amanda is certified in diamonds and colored gemstones by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) in New York City - one of the largest and most important diamond markets in the world.

Prior to founding August Bespoke, Amanda's career has spanned multiple industries. After graduating from Boston College with a degree in Finance, she became a star analyst at Goldman Sachs in New York where she helped launch some of the most exciting and important Asian IPOs of the time such as AIA, Agricultural Bank of China, and China's version of YouTube.

After leaving Wall Street, Amanda did a brief stint as a travel and food writer, before moving into the startup world. There, she led international expansion efforts for a Japanese marketplace called Voyagin (the predecessor to Airbnb Experiences) into new countries like Indonesia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Her team's international success led to an eventual acquisition by Rakuten, Japan's largest e-commerce platform.

Amanda is passionate about supporting female entrepreneurs and is excited to be building a company with heart in a traditional, male-dominated industry.

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Welcome to Episode 19 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Edwin Wong on this week's episode.

We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us.

Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday, so stay tuned!

Edwin Wong is Senior Vice President, Insights & Innovation at Vox Media, the leading independent modern media company known for building the best media brands and the technology that enables them. He leads research to identify key trends in consumer behavior and help advertisers capitalize on these trends to effectively connect with their core audiences. He has been studying digital consumer behavior for nearly 20 years and has held previous roles at BuzzFeed, Pinterest and Yahoo.

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Welcome to Episode 18 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Tania Wu on this week's episode.

We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us.

Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday, so stay tuned!

Tania is a real estate investor, broker, property manager, and author. She came to the US at the age of 20, after 2 years of college in Taiwan, to study English literature at the University of Texas. While early in her Ph.D. program at UC San Diego, she discovered her passion for financial freedom after taking a few investment courses. She dropped out of her Ph.D. program to pursue a real estate career and invest in multifamily properties in the Greater Boston area. She quickly became the top-selling agent at her firm and started her own property management company to manage her and her clients’ properties. Within four years of entering real estate, she had accumulated 5 million worth of real estate. Her first book, half memoir, half historical fiction based on her experiences from Asia to America, will be published in spring 2020.

An avid traveler and has lived in Taiwan, California, Texas, and Massachusetts, she has an international perspective on the Greater Boston Real Estate Market. Tania is an active member of the Top Broker Network, National Association of Realtors, and the Asian Real Estate Association of America. She is also the President of the Taiwan Youth Chamber of Commerce in New England, an organization committed to providing entrepreneurship education and networking for young professionals. Her real estate team has a large network of contractors, stagers, photographers, and mortgage brokers. Her online real estate platforms have 10,000+ followers.

Please check out our Patreon at @asianhustlenetwork. We want AHN to continue to be meaningful and give back to the Asian community. If you enjoy our podcast and would like to contribute to our future, we hope you’ll consider becoming a patron.

Welcome to Episode 17 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Andrew Chau on this week's episode.

We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us.

Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is our opportunity to use the voices of the Asian community and share these incredible stories with the world. We release a new episode every Wednesday, so stay tuned!

Andrew Chau is one half of Boba Guys and Tea People USA. A former blogger for GOOD magazine, Andrew writes about entrepreneurship through the lens of brand marketing, technology, and the lean startup approach. Prior to a career in CPG and corporate marketing, Andrew started and exited his first startup in 2011. He has his MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

Please check out our Patreon at @asianhustlenetwork. We want AHN to continue to be meaningful and give back to the Asian community. If you enjoy our podcast and would like to contribute to our future, we hope you’ll consider becoming a patron.